Mustering Fortune: Attraction and Multiplication in the Echoes of the Boom
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Mustering Fortune : Attraction and Multiplication in the Echoes of the Boom. / Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia Adelle.
In: Ethnos, Vol. 84, No. 5, 2019, p. 891-909.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Mustering Fortune
T2 - Attraction and Multiplication in the Echoes of the Boom
AU - Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia Adelle
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Since the end of the socialist period, Mongolia has experienced economic instabilities, growing inequalities, and increasing urbanisation. Prosperity (dallaga) rituals, once predominantly carried out by nomadic herders at specific times of the year, are now also held regularly within Ulaanbaatar’s Buddhist temples. In these ceremonies, Buddhist lamas and lay participants attempt to ‘call’ or ‘pull’ wealth to the household. In this urban context, prosperity rituals are overtly about money, combining nomadic notions of wealth, sedentary ideas of growth and multiplication, and contemporary anxieties regarding growing corruption and inequality. Following from nomadic ideas that link prosperity with movement, dallaga rituals attempt to influence the ways that money travels around the economy. As money has seed like qualities, one must be careful to ensure that the right kind of money is attracted to the household so that it does not multiply the misfortunes that are thought to characterise money made through ill-gotten means.
AB - Since the end of the socialist period, Mongolia has experienced economic instabilities, growing inequalities, and increasing urbanisation. Prosperity (dallaga) rituals, once predominantly carried out by nomadic herders at specific times of the year, are now also held regularly within Ulaanbaatar’s Buddhist temples. In these ceremonies, Buddhist lamas and lay participants attempt to ‘call’ or ‘pull’ wealth to the household. In this urban context, prosperity rituals are overtly about money, combining nomadic notions of wealth, sedentary ideas of growth and multiplication, and contemporary anxieties regarding growing corruption and inequality. Following from nomadic ideas that link prosperity with movement, dallaga rituals attempt to influence the ways that money travels around the economy. As money has seed like qualities, one must be careful to ensure that the right kind of money is attracted to the household so that it does not multiply the misfortunes that are thought to characterise money made through ill-gotten means.
U2 - 10.1080/00141844.2018.1511610
DO - 10.1080/00141844.2018.1511610
M3 - Journal article
VL - 84
SP - 891
EP - 909
JO - Ethnos
JF - Ethnos
SN - 0014-1844
IS - 5
ER -
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